The Sun. — London, England, 1809-11-24 00:00:00

TR 1 ' ODE TO RIOT. 1", r, of Anarchy the furious fi:zrid, With MA Licr at thy side, And disappointedPAtui -• •And EvY,. anxious Merit to annoy, And interrupt the promis'd joy, In savage state to Covent Garden bend. The noble rile, by GEr re s defice— With furious shouts maintain thy sway, Trample on all who cross thy way, Nor for a moment pause to spare '1 he timid unoffending fair, But spread confusion o'er the place. . Sound all thy rattles, horns, and bells, •. • And raise thy horrid yells, Thy banners wave, With many a stave t ; 'hat democratic fiends pripare t, .• . For vuler minds a specious snare. • Now in the Pit thy legion takertheir stand, Each with a bludgeon in his hand ; Here lurks a miscreant, with a wily tongue, Whisp'ring his creed to taint the heedless young, While Folly, kist'ning to the baneful hole, , Mingles sedition with her hideous roar. 'Vhat tioops'from School what prentice boys. appear ! What ruffians in thy van and rear ! What sly freebooters, not a tew, Combine to swell thy motley crew Now to the center some advance, And jostle in a frantic dalice ; Like savage Indians, With relentleis ire, When conquer'd enemies in flames expire. The Scenic train. With vile abuse asvtil, Nor merely be content to , With brutal rage thy missile vengeance aimi, Arid e'en attack tie teeming Dame, Whcise only provocation is her name ;* A name, where talents and success unite, And hence, of Course, the tnark of envious spite: lOW now, amid infernal cact i Unfurl'd placards disgust or r eyes, From vile OssceNtr Y inscriptions came, To wound the ear of MODEsT 7. their And British Dames, for purity renown'd, • Indignant fly the horrid sound. Such are thy triumphs, R for-such thy deeds— In vain to check thy fury instice pleads ; while &aye° int, scowling with sarcastic grin, 'Abets the tumult, and enjoys the din ; to frame the jacobinic hint . Fo'r the coarse column's of a ladious print. Are:theSe Txt rust. it, who with brutal rage Would drive insulted Talents from the Stage ! Who Female Honour shock with. sounds profane, And ail the decencies ollife disdain " Whb, when enlighter.'d charatlers decide Whom Kuovvied;;e; Probity, Eiperknce • ...kbjure than- verdiet arid their worth deride It Who Chaunt the praise,' with hypucritic.time, Of our good K i `c, yet would erase.his throne . Are these the P ro - ise, for shalile Let nut a mob usurp the PuELic Rouse, and this Kabble chace with scorn away, . •• That TASTE, SENSE, may resume 't!. their sway. Several atticlea, were ihroWn at Mrs. C. • ash - ISLE, though she was obviously in such a state as would excite I :esliett and sympathy in humane and liberal minds. • t The attempts to drive the Ka= z family from the ',heatie miiSt halm arisen from the basest feelings of envy malevolencg. Lt \tins the scandalous epigrarris in a Morning Paper, tend induce the Public to believethat Sir C. PR CE, one of Lommittee of Cattlemen whO kindly investigated the ,c e °Lints of the Theatre, had an interest in the question, t hough he had never 'been connected with the prdperty. A "and of ruffians two or three nights sallied.from the Theatre, Qnd raised a tumult before the house of the. Recorder, one of th e same respectable, intelligent, and disinterested Commit tee, who could have no motives for entering upon the in— quiry, but a zeal tbr justice, and a desire to restore public peace. COVENT-GiIkDEN tHEATRE. We have some reason to . congratulate otirselves :. I .having often predi&ed, elven during the utmost fu ry of the tumults which prevailed in this Theatre, that the good sense and liberal feelings of the public "Ould finally triumph, and last night we had abun dant reason to be satisfied that we understood the bational.charader. The Comedy of Every Man in his Humour was represented, and was heard with nearly as much attention as generally accompanied dramatic represeritations in "the most peaceable times. :At the end of the third act a rush was made towards the middle of thb Pit, and an attempt to" revive the spirit' of tumult took place, but it received so little encouragement, or rather was so obviously discountenanced by tbe.audience in gene-. nil, that it soon subsided, and did not 'rise into any thing like an effeetual interruption of the perform 'Lice through the remainder of the play, and the 4 iter-piece of Don Juan. Hence then we trust that b e may now congratulate JpnN Bum, on the testatation of his gen'erotis feelings, witliont anTdirni botion of his manly spirit. _Some of his. family have Indeed been riotous, and some mischievous, but , 111 ost of them had, perhaps, nothing but noisy fun i n view. The Proprietors have, no doubt, severely kiffered in their property, arid have been grievously disappointed in their hopes, but it is their interest to be upon good terms with ,the people in general, and if none ;of the lattetShould resume offensive ° Perations, we are persuaded that the former will hot be inclined to shew a vindiaive spirit. The Gazette of Saturday last, contains.his Majes.6 t Y's.confirmation of the title of Knighthood; con ferred upon Sir THO3IAS STAINES, by his 'Sicilian. 4lajeSty FEaDINAND the IVth, King of the Two Si tilies, as a mark of the sense his Sicilian Majesty !ntertained of the great skill alai intrepidity displayed uY Captain STAINES a'gainst tlio4 twiny, ill 114 w "Lie titerrewean in June bkpt. • •t ~V Lrjvi BO W.-571%32, - .1,- 7 —Yesterday, •Thamp..t Daly, a Watchman belonging• to, the palish of St. Mary-le- Sirand,...was brought to the Otike,:charged with be ing concerned with another man not yet taken, in robbing Caroline Wilcox,, wife, of John Wilcox, boatswain's mate of his Majesty's brig Bcag,le; ,p 1 Bank'notes of and 101: each, to, tlie amount of about, 2601. and 6ir in cash, nine valuable gowns, and other women's wearing apparel.. The circum stances attending the robbery are, of .a deep laid scheMe, daring and very cruet; They are as follow :The prosecutrix's,lnisband was- some.years since a steward on board the Columbus, in the West India trade, till ,about five years since, when he was pressed on board, one of his Majesty's ships; from which. he was removed to the Rolla, on board of which he was prornOted to be a gunner, 41 which situation he remained about a year and a half, when he was removed to the Beagle, and was promoted to be boatswain's mate. He then sent for his wife, and she sailed with him to the Baltic. On their re turn they joined the, expedition to Flushing, and while on board, the prosecdtrix Mused the . Captain's (Newcomb's) wife during her confinement in child birth.l About two, months ago they returned•to dock,-at Sheerness, for the vessel to be repaired. :On. Tuesday week, they went to the Downs, where they were paid off; her husband received threa years pay and some prize-money, which he gave her, in consequence of his being ordered to sea again, and desired her to return home to Ireland to her mother, who has the care of their two children. The money he gave her, together with the sum she received as.a present from Captain Newcomb, made up the above. Early on Saturday . . morning she left Deal, by the stage, and arrived in the evening at the Golden Cross, Charing Cross. She not knowing any person . in England, took her place by the Liver pool coach, to. proceed the following morning to Ireland. She slept at the Inn, and , was called in the morning at four o'clock, the, .coach ; starting at five. ,She got, ; up ,when she was called, and was waiting for the coach under the gateway in, St. ; Martin's-lane ; .the ,hostler went to her, and told her the.coach was nearly ready, , and to follow him; , she did so a few yards, but it being darks lost sight of him, when the prisoner aid another man accosted her, and said they were going by the coach she, was, and as the .coach , wound stop at three places before it got off the stones,, which was very dis agreeable, advised her to walk on with them, 'till they got to the last place, which she was silly enough to .agree to. They Set .oft .and,, as she supposed, along the Strand; .the contrary_road she goes. It has since been ascertained they went up Drorrlane„ and stopped at the lack Boy public house; the prisoner and his companion had three half pints of gin.; the prosecutrix did not. take any liquor, but got some milk, of a woman at the. door. - .After the prisoner and his companion had drank th:vir gin, they couduaed her to ,the Cock pub.fC house, in Dyut-street, St. Giles's, which they told her was the last place the coach. called at ; and they asked her to treat them wi i h some , li quor , which she agreed to. She put her bundle , the' bar, in expectation of the coach coming up. the prisoner's companion took :her beadle on, his .back, she suppos ing he was takitig it to the coach. In a few minutes utter, the. prisoner told her the other man had run away with her•bundle ; this very much alarmed her. The prisoner said he would-run after-him - and bring him back ;, he then ran out of the house, but ,never returned: In this forlorn state, the prosecutrix was r left in . one ,of the most shocking and dangerous ,neighbourhoods in London, without knowing where she was, or a single person in England, and robbed .of the whole of her property; this brought her into such a distracted state of mind, that she took a pen knife from her pocket, and cut her throat ; however, a surgeon was procured, and it was discovered that the knife had not penetrated deep enough to en danger her life.. The wound was sewed up, and she is in a fair, way oi doing well. She said, in justih , cation of her rash ad, that she might as well lose her life as her money and cloaths. In this forlorn gtate, an honest sailor took compassion upon her, and took her to his apartments, where she fared as -he - and his 'wife did during Sunday, an d th e y ma d e up a bed for her. On Monday morning, honest Jack went with her to several pawnbrokers, to inquire after her cloaths, which had been stolen. The wife' of the sailor re ,quested her not to return there to sleep, as they were in such a bad neighbourhood, their life would be in danger, and she would not wonder at the house being set on lire. After the sailor had made many fruitless inquiries, he conducted her to the above office, where Treadway, the Cobstable, belonging to St. Giles's; .undertook to' investigate the business for her, and took her under his protection, and pro cured her a habitation. Treadway traced out the two public houses where they stopt at, and learned, at. the Cock public house, in Dyut-street, that one of the men's names was Daly, and that he was a watchman, but did not know the parish he belong ed to; the other man who pas with him they only knew . ..by sight. Treadway inquired at several parishes, and at length discovered him to belong to St. Mary-le-Strand, and 'apprehended him on Mon day night, on his beat, in Fountain -court, in the' Strand. Yesterday, the prisoner underwent an eXamina tion, when he acknowledged being one of the men who was with the prosecutrix, but denied know ing who the ottier man was, or where he was to be found. Ho was committed for further exami nation. Mr. PEGLER, a King's Messenger, arrived yester day at the Foreign Office, -in. Downing-street, with dispatches froth Spain. SMITHFIELD MARKET, NO 24. This day's Market had a pretty good supplp of different kinds of Cattle ; Beef, Mutton, Pork, and Veal, support last prices ; and the trade for the most part was but indifferenr.The sales in the Hay Market were trifling ; flay and Clover fetched last prices; Straw has fallen in price. The following prices and numbers are an atcnrate statement : - To sink the 011 A per stone of-Sib. Beef 4s. ad. to sS. od. Muttou 4s, od. tb ss. od. Veal 6s. ed. to ys. cd, Pork ss. od. to 6s. Oil. • Beasts 86q.-- Sheep 4,76o.—Calves 37.—Pigs 314, SMITHFIELD HAYMARKET. Nay 41. bs. od. to 61. os. od. Straw 0.145. A, to 11, as. Glirm CS. ed. to L. ts. i 4 L.,lrp .114 P. o z:T. Cat/LT.OF KING'sBENCI-1. TIiB fIiT'ZG HORSEMAN. ThC ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved the judgment Of the Court upon this defendant; who stood con-, vided of publishing a hand-bill containing an atro cious libel on the Duke of Sussex, imputing to his _Royal Highness that be was suspeded of being; the ':author of a band-bill, without the name 'of a prin 'tvr, reficaing on the charnder of a Mr. Hague, of I, BryanstOne-street, and which hand-bill had been circulated among Mr:' Hague's friends; the hand-bill of which this defendant lhad been found guilty of publishing, offi.Ted-a reward of 201. for•the diScovery of the author of the - former hand-bill; 'of which his Royal Highness was accused iu thii Man- „ ner of being the author. The defendant, Horseman, presented sort of memorial, or petition, to the Court, Stating that 'he was not the author, nor in truth the piiblisliei; of the hand-bill - containittg these . .refiei..'tions •on his Royal Highness,' but that he was employed by Mr: Hague, who took a house in Hanway- . yard for him, whence he issued this bill in ques tion; Mr. Hague undertaking to secure him fecm harm, &c. An affidavit was then put'in, by a person of the name of J. P. Stevens, on behalf of Mr. Hague, an&purporting to be also the affidavit ofthellefend ant, Horseman; but Horseman had never seen it ; the-affidavit was only sworn by Hague,.and was in tended to have been presented to Horseman to be sworn. - The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said there,was a mys tery in this business, so that be should -,not pray the judgment on this, defendant until I there- ,should, some further inquiry into the - subieo, for which .he recommended to the Court to take• bail for this per- , son's.appearance when called upon.. The Court s assented to this, saying they would, take his own recognizanceiu- 401.canCL two sureties in 201. and he was committed until he shall. find such sureties. THE KING V. HARPER AND' OTHERS. These were persons tried and convided before Mr.•3ustice GROSE, at the last Assites for Hu,nting don, for assaulting and scratchiii&with pins the arms and parts of the body of Ann, - the wife Of Wright Izard, under a charge that she was a witch, under the sorcery and incantation of, whom two girls had been subjected to fits. There were four women, and as many men `concerned in this stupid wicked ness. After hearing Mr. Serjeant SELLON and Mr: BEST for the proseCution, and Mr. H A L T 0 - N for Harper, one of the defendants, the sentence of the Court was, that the nefencants should, each of them, be imprisoned one month in the common jail of Hunt ingdon, and give Security for their good behaviour for two years, each 401. him and'hersell, and two sureties in 201. each; except a person of the •name Of Stburt, who was ordered to be imprisoned two Months, having been convicted on two indiCtments for being concerned in both the assaults, tor this mischief had been perpetrated twice by two sets of defendants. • • WRIGHT R. WARDLE. This mo►ion fora new trial being called on— Lord ELLENIiO4OUGH read'the report of the evi dence at the trial. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said he waS 'to she* cause against this rule, -and- unless Colonel Wardle could prevail'on the Court to administer justice to him by a rule differeut from that which prevailed ordinary' cases, it was impossible for him -to entei'- tain an y hope of success in this application. He . was quite sure that from the fads krrown to 'his Learned Counsel, they had given him no hopes of success, and he was quite sure also, 'that if - the fads Which have 'since transpired, and which he should lay` before the Court, had been laid before 'it, the . Court would never , have granted this' rule to s h e W cause, because On these fads hiS clients, the plain • tiffand his witnesses,- stood in a very extraordinary situation, and different from that in which they stood when this trial took place ; not that they had any Apprehension of the consequences of stand ing forward on this occasion, but their situation was new and most extraordinary. Colonel Wardle, be fore this motion was made, had preferred a bid of • indi&went at Hicks's Hall, against not only, the plaintiff in this action, but also against those who gave evidence at the trial of this cause: He was cor rect in saying this, for it was matter of record in the Court wherein he was now speaking, the-itdict -Ment having been removed into' it by Certiorari.— It an indictment for a conspiracy of the plain tiff and -his witnesses to' get a• verdict for him by - means of perjury, which verdict *as now under the consideration of the Court. The removal of that indictment enabled. the Attorney-General, he said, to see on whose testimony it was found,. -and he found the - same persons on• the back of 'the indictment as those who are now brought forward to state filets in support of this application, and on whose testimony Colonel Wardle hoped to in duce the COurt to grant him a .new trial. Now,. with great deference 'to the - Court, he would. take leave to ask them whether they would entertain -this fishing bill of Colonel' Wardle to extra& out of Mr. Wright and his witnesses all the fads' which they will state ip answer to his application, -in order that Colonel • Wardle may know how far he may safely go in swearing, When -he 'shall be examined as a - witness upon the indictment- for a conspiracy. He asked the Court whether, if they kneel that Colonel Wardle had indicted these very persons forfora conSpiracy, and then came for :warki with a motion, calling upon them to state all they ..knoW of thetransatti on on whi c h they are to - be tried, to aid him in his attack against thein in a criminal proceeding s the Court would have granted -a rule to shew cause. " hope," said the At torney-General, " thar 'colonel Wardle is now out of .Court, as he states himself to have been at the trial. I hope he will not always have that ex case to offer; or that he was betrayed by those who had the care of his case, for which reason he came for the extraordinary interposition of the Court in hiS favour." .- Lord ELLSNBOROUGIi'--" I hope no idea is any where entertained that the Court granted this rule to spew cause, on an idea that Colonel Wardle was betrayed by any body who had any share in the conduct of his defence at 'the trial no such idea suggested itself to us whFri the rule fcet M trial wits graiiWd." . . :‘• ' Mr. ATTOTINtY-GEI4ErtAL..r" NO; MS' Lord, tteae could not be imputed to illy Learned Vsieeds. conduCted the ddfauce of Colonel 'Wardle, 'tor mote, honourable Men never practised in the pKte'essieile— Indeed, Colonel Wardle himself did not, say in di rect terms that he was betrayed by theo'7, bet iheres was a kind of insinuation in his edidavit. e ae . ifze thought . that .ItiS Attorney, did not do and this he seemed to countenen.ceby changing .!its. Attorney. " I hold that," said. the Attornev-Ge; neral, "to Be a trick—to be part of the contrivance of Colonel Wardle in' this Case; with a view of it.decieg. the Court to believe what'Colonel Wardle -dares not. swear ; that he thought his case was not properly conducted on the. for Mer occasion by that Atterney. But I am drawn for a momcnt.from the ohservatien -Imes making to your Lordships. Colonel Wardle complains that the witnesses wbe proved the case - before your Lordship, epZI Jury, did',nor state truth; plainly e saying„in other words, that they were,guilty of perjury, on- that oceasiop—that i he says ineinet, but hehes not dared. to indict them ler perjury; met . ,ltehaa- the folly .to suppose, that if- he can indtic e e on: witnesses, to state all they know upoo the veholt of this case, he may make us.e. , of it efterwards against : their,, by .knoWing I,vhaz be e and his witnesi,es _may, afterwards - with,safety, swear upon the (rid) for cop e.; spiracy, , he will be ,able to coevici them to a cer fe taints. • Was such a contri.vauce ever heard of ?, Was such an :impudent proceeding ever eefore heelji• of in a Court of Justice. ? To indict the plaiteti . and. witnesses for a conspiracy, to erre: e re ,a yet dx—imputing to them, that they had prot:ttre,.l ver4ict_by.perjury of th e witnesses examinee{ !Or th e. plaintiff; that they- might be prevented -fiont evidence of the transaction here, lest they -; , l); - ,L11( • disclose the, whole of their defence to ,him when they cometo be tried neon the criminal charge trido ; againSt them, that he may know - how. to attack short , afterwards with something . for which th catinpt be prepared; there is in this if.species of coutrive ance, which your Lordship ,would hardly euspea of any man, without evidence to induce such a suph cion. By .which Colonel Wardle thinks, that he ; shall either prevent these persons, from being w . it!- nesses against him on the discussion, of this Role, or if there are such 'witnesses,. that he shall be able to t take advantage of them afterwards on the trial fPr e a conspiracy. •He could prevent' the w lie of the plaintiff from being a witness. I really know not how to describe such a transaction, or in what terms to express the sense that I have of the folly and the' wickedness of it. .Your Lordships tv iil consider, that this indidtnent. is hereafter to be tried, and believe that Colonel Wardle had 'some aßerehen-, sion of his own fate, on his being a u ittress in the criminal prosecution which he has instituted uposi this subje&, and therefore he wished to know, whe, ther there was something behind all this ; and therefore he moves for a new trial, for which there is not the least colour, to draw from the detendent whatever strength there is in . his. case; ,to enable him to arrange hereafter the criminal case.which he wishes• to make. out against the plaintiff. I hope Colonel Wardle is within hearing. , It he be in the Hall, I will take care that.he shall hear what-I sayei and I would not say this if it were not for the ex cuse which - Colonel Wardle made on account• of his not being present in Court at the.time of the trial and therefore I beg your Lordship to cousider Colt Wardle as now being in Court, giving hi> own ip strudtions to the LearnedGentleinen . who Are to discuss this subieet in his behalf; he,sayingehat hie own instructions were - not given to them at the trial, This rule is moved for against 'Mr. Wright, the plaintiff In this cause, and I say it is brought fore ward against him and against his witnesses; for the purpose of enabling COlonel - Wardletto.seebovir far he slay with safety go in the evidence Which _they shall 'give on. the trial of the indiCtneent which he has preferred against them ; but, my- LorN, my Learned-Friends and I feel the situation and the pe ril of our client from the course which Col. Wardle has taken in this blisiness. , We- told. him that he Was called on to answer a criminal charge, and that his witnesses were included in the peril ; that perm sons so situated in a civil case, .were never.put into such a situation as they stand in now in a criminal one, and that your Lordships, when you cone to be informed of-these particulars, would see that theSe • civil proceedings were instituted forthe purPose of facilitating' proceedings of a-criminal nature, or that the proceedings' which were of a criminal nature were instituted to influence , the case of Colonel • Wardle in the - civil part of it ; your Lordships would discharge this rule on this statement of the leas, and we added, that if these fads had .been communicated to your Lordships at the time of moving for- a new trial, you -would not Uve granted the rule to shew cause., But the At torney-General said, that. the answer of 'Mr: Wright was that for which he shodld always think well Of him, the substance of which was, .that he knew the peril to which be must heexposed,.in e di6ted as he and his witnesses were for a conspiracy, by coming forward to. state, in this civil cause; all -.they knew of the transaction ; but such w as his . consciousness that his cause was founded upon truth, that he would run ail hazards, and . state the whole • of his case in shewing..cause against this rule. Had all these fasts but been known to the Court when the motion-,was made for the new trial, the Conti .would never have granted the new trial. . The ATTORNni•CIENERAL then referred to the letter of Colonel \Vardlee addressed to the People Of the United Kingdom, which: he said was p'entied oti . the day of the trial, and published the day follow ing. He ridiculed the idea Of this Address to that People of thetTnited Kittgddln, upon the subject of an Upholsterer's bill, 'Who had brought an a6tiou against a' Gentletnan, who after proinising to pay 'him, had refusedeo do - So, and which a Jury had, by eheir verdict, said he ought to do. Tice Lkteite w a s.-= 4 , TO 'I'HE PEO.I 3 LE . O . F'THE UNITED KING. DOM. Ilonoured'as my P:!rliarrientary'Condud has been by ihd approbation of so many - of my countrymen,. I feel myself called upon inconsequence of an event that yesterd a y place, immediately xi) address you, and. that in tindiearion or inY charader, reoder‘d open to attack from the verdicr Of the Jury upon the evidence of Mes. Clarke, and Mr. Wright, the brother of her upholsterer, in a cause in which I was. defendant, in the CoUrt of King's Bench. The detail of the evidence the public . prints affind. It is With me t o stat e i that My Counsel,' satisfied in their mind, that the Tut?' ouLt hut, upon such testimony as had been gi v e n by th e piaitlittas brother and Mrs. Clarke alone, find a Veldid againSt the; did not &triply with my entreaties (repeated to them in \clang during the trial, in the strongest terms), that Major Dodni Wennie, and other respectable witnesses subpdsnaed bit plithlltit4ta myatllstuiVit lag exaluinCd I.lsuov thy..